The conference “The Religious Factor in the Socio-Political Life of Modern Russia: Religion, and Law in Public Policy” was held in Moscow on 28 May 2013 in the Great Hall of the Academic Council of the Institute of Europe. Organizers of the conference included the Academy of Labor and Social Relations, Department of Sociology and Management of Social Relations and the Center of Religious Study “ReligoPolis” (Moscow, Russia); the Family Center and the International Center of Law and Religious Studies, both of Brigham Young University (Provo, Utah, USA); the Russian Orthodox University of Saint John Evangelist (Moscow) Department of Religious Studies, Ethnology and Regional Studies. Cole Durham participated.